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Although Microsoft is now extremely belatedly bringing in a clone of Apple's Magic Mouse, where the heck is Microsoft's photocopied Magic Trackpad?

Lenovo has announced three new tablets, with two running Android 3.1 Honeycomb on Nvidia Tegra 2 processors and a third running Windows 7 with an unspecificed 1.5GHz Intel processor - are these all but placeholders until Windows 8?

Apple's magical and revolutionary ways have seen in introduce (but not yet release to the public) its OS X Lion and iOS 5 operating systems, along with a new cloud service that wirelessly synchronises various iMacs and iDevices, but couldn't Microsoft quickly catch up?

Respected analyst firm Ovum says that while reports of Microsoft and Windows' 'imminent demise are somewhat over exaggerated', it notes that the somewhat tardy software maker still has a lot of work to prove that Windows 8 will rate.

Microsoft's newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company's ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union - despite some Apple-like behaviour.

With Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 promising the power of Mac OS X and the magic of iPad, it looks like Redmond's photocopiers have been running so hot, they've finally managed to blend the desktop power of Windows 7 with the magic of the Windows Phone 7 experience, with 7 plus 7 clearly equalling 8!

The news is out that a blog post on Microsoft's Dutch subsidiary says it will take another two years to get Windows 8 on the market, but that's for the boxed, retail version, as betas have to come out first, and we should see those from 2011!

It's the end of day one at Microsoft's REMIX conference in Melbourne, and I had a chance to chat with some of Microsoft's executives on the direction they're taking in bringing Windows Phone 7 to market and the rest of the topics being showcased and discussed, from questions about Windows 8 to the level of adoption we're seeing for touch technologies and more!